Senate File 429 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO SF 240) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act authorizing local authorities to permit parking on the 2 left side of a roadway. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2331SV 83 5 dea/nh/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.361, Code 2009, is amended by 1 2 adding the following new subsection: 1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 1A. Local authorities may by ordinance 1 4 permit vehicles stopped or parked upon a roadway where there 1 5 are adjacent curbs to be stopped or parked with the left=hand 1 6 wheels of the vehicle adjacent to and within eighteen inches 1 7 of the left=hand curb, if deemed safer than stopping or 1 8 parking as provided in subsection 1. 1 9 EXPLANATION 1 10 This bill relates to parking on the left side of a roadway. 1 11 The bill permits a political subdivision of the state to adopt 1 12 an ordinance allowing a vehicle to park on a roadway with the 1 13 left=hand wheels of a vehicle within 18 inches of the 1 14 left=hand curb, if the political subdivision deems it safer 1 15 than parking on the right=hand side of the street. Current 1 16 law prohibits a vehicle from parking with the left=hand wheels 1 17 adjacent to the left=hand curb unless the roadway is a one=way 1 18 roadway. 1 19 LSB 2331SV 83 1 20 dea/nh/14